Introducing Wallarm Middle East Cloud: Built for Data Residency Compliance

As API and AI adoption grows across the Middle East, so do the expectations around how data is handled. For many organizations operating in this region, it’s not just about securing applications. It’s about doing it in a way that keeps data in-country and aligned with local requirements. Today,...

CISO Spotlight: Craig Riddell on Curiosity, Translation, and Why API Security is the New Business Imperative

It’s an unusually cold winter morning in Houston, and Craig Riddell is settling into his new role as Wallarm’s Global Field CISO. It’s a position that suits him down to the ground, blending technical depth, empathy, business acumen, and, what Craig believes, the most underrated skill in...

7 Reasons to Get Certified in API Security

API security is becoming more important by the day and skilled practitioners are in high demand. Now’s the time to level up your API security skillset. Wallarm University, our free training course, provides security analysts, engineers, and practitioners with hands-on skills you can’t get from...

API Attack Awareness: Business Logic Abuse — Exploiting the Rules of the Game

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, we wanted to dive even deeper into the attack methods affecting APIs. We’ve already reviewed Broken Object Level Authentication BOLA, injection attacks, and authentication flaws; this week, we’re exploring business logic abuse BLA. Unlike technical flaw...

Wallarm: API Security Platform of the Year 2025

2025 has been one of Wallarm’s biggest years yet. In the last few months alone, we unveiled our industry-first API Revenue Protection capability, launched our next-gen Security Edge offering, were included in the 2025 Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, and announced o...

Exploiting API4 — 8 Real-World Unrestricted Resource Consumption Attack Scenarios (and How to Stop Them)

Unrestricted Resource ConsumptionAPI4:2023 is the only threat category in the OWASP API Security Top 10 explicitly dedicated to Denial of Service DoS and resource abuse. But despite being just one category, attackers can exploit it in many different ways; from large file uploads and expensive...

Black Hat 2025: Why We Built a Museum Instead of a Booth

Think you know what to expect from a conference booth? Think again. Forget the cliches: the swag destined for the back of your wardrobe, the formula one simulators, the marketing trickery. Instead, step into a new kind of conference experience, one that takes you on a journey through past, presen...

Fail-Open Architecture for Secure Inline Protection on Azure

Every inline deployment introduces a tradeoff: enhanced inspection versus increased risk of downtime. Inline protection is important, especially for APIs, which are now the most targeted attack surface, but so is consistent uptime and performance. This is where a fail-open architecture comes in...

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Wallarm Research Releases Nuclei Template to Counter Threats Targeting LLM Apps

Wallarm Research has just released a powerful new Nuclei template targeting a new kind of exposure: the Model Context Protocol MCP. This isn’t about legacy devtools or generic JSON-RPC pinging. It’s about the protocol fueling next-gen LLM applications — and it’s already showing up exposed in the...

Meeting NIST API Security Guidelines with Wallarm

On March 25, 2025, NIST released the initial public draft of NIST SP 800-228, "Guidelines for API Protection for Cloud-Native Systems." The document provides a comprehensive framework for securing APIs in cloud-enabled environments. However, for organizations looking to align with these objective...

Reducing False Positives in API Security: Advanced Techniques Using Machine Learning

False positives in API security are a serious problem, often resulting in wasted results and time, missing real threats, alert fatigue, and operational disruption. Fortunately, however, emerging technologies like machine learning ML can help organizations minimize false positives and streamline t...

How Security Edge Revolutionizes API Security

Wallarm’s Security Edge is setting a new standard in API security—far beyond the reach of traditional Content Delivery Networks CDNs. Let’s get it straight: Security Edge is not just a new addition to the API security market; it’s a disruption. Designed to deliver fast, effective, and advanced AP...

Choosing the Right Deployment Option for Your API Security Solution

You need an API security solution. That much is a given although some may argue it isn’t!. While essential for business growth and innovation, APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, expose the organizations that use them to cyber threats. Attackers are both aware of and actively exploiting...

Two of Wallarm’s Open-source Tools Have Been Accepted into Black Hat Arsenal 2024

We're gearing up with some seriously cool stuff for Black Hat! But first, a little sneak peek - not just one, but TWO of Wallarm's open-source tools will be featured in the Arsenal showcase at Black Hat USA this year. Black Hat Arsenal unites researchers and the open-source community to display...

Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack: Malicious JavaScript Injection Puts Over 100k Websites At Risk

Polyfill.io helps web developers achieve cross-browser compatibility by automatically managing necessary polyfills. By adding a script tag to their HTML, developers can ensure that features like JavaScript functions, HTML5 elements, and various APIs work across different browsers. Originally...

CVE-2024-24919: Check Point’s Quantum Gateway comes under Attack as Hackers exploit Zero-Day Vulnerability

Active Exploits target Check Point Security Gateway Zero-Day Information Disclosure flaw Check Point Cybersecurity has issued hotfixes to address a zero-day vulnerability in its VPNs that has been exploited to gain remote access to firewalls and potentially infiltrate corporate networks. On...

Best API Security Product: Wallarm wins 2024 Cybersecurity Excellence Award

We are thrilled to announce that Wallarm has clinched the sought-after 2024 Cybersecurity Excellence Award, under the category Best API Security Product. Our unwavering commitment to pioneering solutions that safeguard digital ecosystems, and fortify API security amidst the evolving cyber threat...

Tracking CVE-2024-2876: Why does the latest WordPress exploit compromise over 90,000 websites?

A highly concerning security loophole was recently discovered in a WordPress plugin called "Email Subscribers by Icegram Express," a popular tool utilized by a vast network of over 90,000+ websites. Officially designated as CVE-2024-2876 with a CVSS score of 9.8 critical, the vulnerability...

Wallarm’s Open Source API Firewall debuts at Blackhat Asia 2024 – Introduces Key New Features & Functionalities

Wallarm introduced its ongoing Open Source API Firewall project to the world at the recently concluded Blackhat Asia 2024 conference in Singapore. The open-source API Firewall by Wallarm is a free, lightweight API Firewall designed to protect REST and GraphQL API endpoints across cloud-native...